Cogent Business & Management

Strategic Resilience, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Business Renewal in Uncertain Times

In an era marked by significant challenges, such as geopolitical instability, technological disruption, climate-related shocks, inflationary pressures, and rapid market transformation, firms must renew their strategic approaches, even operating under significant uncertainty. Conventional management models, which were designed for stable environmental conditions, often prove insufficient when firms must respond quickly to a volatile environment. In this context, entrepreneurial orientation, strategic agility, and business renewal emerge as critical capabilities for sustaining competitiveness and long-term performance. This Collection explores how firms (of different sizes and sectors) and institutional contexts develop adaptive responses to uncertainty. These responses may include innovation, proactiveness, risk management, organizational learning, strategic reconfiguration, and others. We welcome studies examining how managers perceive environmental turbulence and how they translate their perceptions into renewal strategies. These strategies may include new business models, digital transformation, partnerships, market repositioning, talent reconfiguration, and international expansion, among others.

In the context described above, special attention should be given to organizations that face resource constraints, which may intensify strategic challenges – such as SMEs, family businesses, service firms, tourism and hospitality organizations, and firms operating in emerging economies. Comparative, cross-country, and sectoral analyses are especially encouraged.

We invite conceptual papers, quantitative and qualitative empirical studies, mixed-method studies, systematic literature reviews, and case studies that advance the knowledge on resilience and renewal in uncertain times. By integrating perspectives on entrepreneurship and strategic management, this issue aims to generate actionable insights for scholars, managers, and policymakers. We welcome papers on topics such as, but not limited to:

• Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance
• Strategic agility in uncertain markets
• Business renewal and transformation strategies
• Organizational resilience and crisis adaptation
• Managerial decision-making under uncertainty
• Innovation and competitive advantage
• Digital transformation and AI adoption
• SMEs and family business adaptation
• Internationalization in volatile environments
• Tourism and hospitality competitiveness
• Sustainability and long-term growth
• Dynamic capabilities and strategic change
• Emerging markets and entrepreneurial ecosystems
• Human capital and leadership in disruption
• Cross-country comparative business studies

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Maria de Lurdes Calisto holds a PhD in Management from the University of Évora. She is a Coordinator Professor at Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, where she is a co-coordinator of the Post-Graduation on Creation and Management of Start-ups in Tourism and a sub-coordinator of the Master's in Hotel Management. She also serves as an evaluator of funding applications for European organizations in the tourism, hospitality, and food services sectors. She is an integrated researcher and coordinator of CiTUR - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation (Estoril hub), and a collaborator at CEFAGE - Center for Studies and Advanced Training in Management and Economics of the University of Évora. She has extensive experience in competitive funding research projects, and her research interests include entrepreneurship, business strategy, innovation management, intrapreneurial behavior, corporate entrepreneurship, sustainability, and resilience, namely in the context of tourism and hospitality. She has several publications with global book publishers and top-tier journals.

Maria Teresa Costa is a Coordinating Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the School of Business Sciences of the Polytechnic University of Setúbal, where she also contributes to scientific governance bodies. She is an integrated researcher at CIEQV and an associate researcher at CiTUR. She holds a PhD in Management and completed postdoctoral research in Entrepreneurship and Social Capital in Tourism at the University of São Paulo. Her research focuses on the intersections of entrepreneurship, innovation, social capital, networks, governance, and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on tourism and territorial development. Maria Teresa Costa has extensive experience in funded research projects, international academic publishing, and publication in recognized journals in tourism, hospitality, and management. She previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation. She also maintains an active international profile through academic collaboration, participation in graduate programs, research networks, and partnerships with institutions in different countries.

The Guest Advisors do not have any conflicts of interest to disclose.

For more information about this Collection, please contact the Commissioning Editor, Dr. Molly Cole, at [email protected].